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Michael Edgerton

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Imitating the Vivacity of the Human Voice (e99), for solo erhu (2017)

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Summary, in English

PREMIERE: Premiered by Hu Liu during the 2017 China-ASEAN Music Week at the Guangxi University of the Arts on May 28th.
NOTE:
Imitating the Vivacity of the Human Voice, is a meditation on diversity and the roiling of coexistence. In this piece disparate components from east and west do not suggest a transcendent unification. Rather, rhetorical devices such as “Tiaogong” [跳弓] or “Schleifer” become something else – no longer artefacts presuming cultural retention, but rather discourse to a risky modernism

Technically, Imitating… presents incomplete (and embedded) tuplets on multiple strata that are to be interpreted flexibly in relation to a temporal grid laid out above the notation.

Imitating … continues work with ornamentation as presented by Silvestro Ganassi, in his treatise dal Fontego Opera intitulata Fontegara (Venice, 1535). These ornaments are not to be treated in a historical manner, but rather the performer is asked to simulate non-diatonic contours and gestures, often in competition with an already abundant notation. Such prolongation offered through archetypal symbols provides a fleeting logos that is demonstrably risky.

Department/s

  • Teachers (Malmö Academy of Music)

Publishing year

2017

Language

English

Document type

Artistic work

Publisher

BABELSCORES®

Topic

  • Music

Status

Published

Project

  • composition, 1985 to current